Daffy Duck is definitely a bona fide "star," despite general
claims to the contrary. He has appeared in more than 120 cartoons since
his introduction in the 1937 short "Porky's Duck Hunt."
Daffy's appearance and frenetic, unpredictable personality have made him
immediately recognizable and a favorite with audiences around the world.

In his first cartoon, "Porky's Duck Hunt," Daffy inverts the
role of hunter and prey, thwarting Porky Pig's expectations and
frustrating him until he finally waves a sheaf of papers at the duck and
shouts, "Th-th-that's not in the script!" The hyperactive duck
became an immediate hit and was christened "Daffy" in 1938 in
the short titled, "Daffy Duck and Egghead."

Daffy and Porky became an established team, and as their partnership
developed, Daffy's initial insanity was tempered to a neurotic paranoia.
He became less wildly untethered and more cunning and conniving. In Friz
Freleng's `You Ought To Be in Pictures" (1940), Daffy convinces
Porky to quit his steady job in cartoons to become "Bette Davis'
leading man." When Porky leaves, the devious duck immediately tries
to persuade the producer to give him Porky's starring roles and billing.
Inevitably, Porky returns and Daffy's hopes are dashed.

Daffy's aggressive and overbearing personality played well off Porky's
shy and less confident demeanor, but Chuck Jones developed another more
volatile combination: Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Jones' Bugs of the
1950's was naturally cool and intelligent, and possessed great wit and
quickness of thought. Daffy, previously known for his sense of unbridled
frenzy, became a thinking duck, although most of his thinking centered
around himself. "l may be a nasty little black duck," he
confides to the audience, "but I'm a live little black duck!"
Daffy strives to be level-headed and witty as Bugs but, try as he may,
the fact that he does not succeed drives him crazy and propels the
humor. Daffy's vanity, greed, haste and disregard for all warnings
appearing before him invariably set him up for failure, and with each
failure, he sets his goals even higher. In Jones "Rabbit Fire"
(1951), "Rabbit Seasoning" (1952) and "Duck! Rabbit!
Duck!" (1953) and Freleng's "A Star's Bored" (1956) and
"Show Biz Bugs" (1957), the conflict between Daffy and Bugs
grows into the Cartoon equivalent of an epic struggle -- with only Daffy
left to do the struggling. This is the quality with which audiences
identify; regardless of the cosmos' conspiracy against him, Daffy never
gives up.

In addition to headlining with a variety of co-stars in more than 120
cartoons during the last 50 years, Daffy has also starred in two feature
length movies, two Saturday morning programs and two prime time
television specials.

In 1987, Daffy starred as an entrepreneurial paranormalist in the first
Looney Tunes theatrical short in twenty years, "The Duxoris"
The following year he was a feature player in "The Night of the
"The Duck." Both of these shorts can now be seen as part of
the feature length film "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters." Daffy's
epic adventures can also be seen Saturday mornings on ABC's "The
Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show;" weekdays on Fox's "Merrie
Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends" and daily on
Nickelodeon's "Looney Tunes."